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Staying connected to the Christian message of ‘A Christmas Carol’
December 27, 2023
On this day 180 years ago Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of A Christmas Carol. Just two days after Christmas, around 2,000 people gave the author their rapt attention, not to mention frequent applause. Published on 19 December 1843, it had already sold 5,000 copies by Christmas Eve. It has never been out of
On the Ninth Day of Christmas: Twelfth Cake revisited
January 02, 2023
Would it be Christmas without a Dickensian flourish? Pen Volger introduces the predecessor of the traditional Christmas cake, which was a Twelfth Night treat but could last the year with proper storage and serious restraint. There’s plenty of time to have a go at the modern recipe she provides, and have your own ready in
Raise a glass to GK Chesterton
December 02, 2022
Our editorial team remind us of the enduring merits in Chestertonian thought and literature at Christmas time
Rich and strange, whether pastiche or homage
December 03, 2021
Lily: A Tale of Revenge by Rose Tremain Chatto & Windus, £18.99, 288 pages ________ Rose Tremain is a prolific and prize-winning author, the recipient of the Whitbread and the Orange Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for the Costa and Booker. She is also an unpredictable one. Her work ranges across time from the Restoration to
Maintaining the Christmas spirit
December 01, 2021
The secret to overcoming the anticlimax of January is to set oneself easy goals
I love to admire this beautiful God-made world but I wish we could see beyond what God has made
October 21, 2013
Have we turned nature into another form of self-indulgence?
Why some women didn’t like Margaret Thatcher
April 29, 2013
Last Saturday's 'Young Margaret' offered some telling insights into the former prime minister
The night Dickens had a Marian vision
February 15, 2012
As we celebrate 200 years since Dickens’s birth William Oddie recalls the writer’s uncanny vision of a woman in blue
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